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Minor earthquake 3.47 mag, 83 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.172S, -64.5943WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The 3.47-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:12:53 / 3:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2017234003. Event ids that are associated: pr2017234003. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.5943 West, latitude 19.172 North, depth = 24 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/08/17 / 2017-08-22 07:12:53 / August 22, 2017 @ 7:12 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola. Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 83 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.47 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5943° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.172° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-22 07:12:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-22 08:08:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 185 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.105 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 297 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2017234003 Id of event.
Event Code 2017234003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017234003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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